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Lead with Confidence: Mastering Purpose and Identity for Organizational Readiness

When was the last time you critically examined your organization’s Purpose and Identity? If it’s been a while, you might be missing out on crucial opportunities for growth and adaptation. Don’t make the mistake of viewing your company’s Purpose and Identity as fixed and unchangeable… Let me tell you a story about a little paper […]

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Adaptive Leadership, Capable People, Change, Change Management, Effective Teams, Facilitation, Growth, Impact, Innovation, Leaders, Leadership, Organizational Growth, Plans, strategic thinking, Sustaining Change, Transition

Celebrating Team Victories!

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Congratulations! You’ve done it! organizational change leadership You’re at the end of your change initiative, and, despite earlier concerns, things have ended successfully! How are you going to celebrate this accomplishment? Here are some ideas of activities that you can do together as a team! Team lunch or dinner: Organize a meal at a nice

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Belonging, Capable People, Change, Change Management, Effective Teams, Leaders, Teams

The Change Leader’s Pit Stop: Refuel, Realign, Resume with Confidence!

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Did you ever take a long summer road trip as a kid? Didn’t those journeys feel like they would take forever? I remember some of the trips I took with my family when I was growing up. Three teenagers in the back seat. No air conditioning. Only one radio/tape deck for the car, with my

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Adaptive Leadership, Capable People, Communication, Effective Teams, Focus, Growth, Impact, Inclusion, Leaders, Leadership, Leadership Trends, Organizational Growth, Plans, strategic thinking, Teams, Transition, Trends

Podcast Adventures! Sharing Lessons in Leading Change

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I’m doing something quite new for me—using guest appearances on several podcasts to offer lessons to a wider audience about leading change! organizational change examples Yes, the rumors are true! You can now listen to me as I tell stories and share insights about what works in organizational change. I started doing this a few

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Change, Change Management, Effective Teams, Growth, Leaders, Leadership, Organizational Growth, Sustaining Change

Avoid These Five Critical Mistakes In Leading Change!

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Leading an organizational change initiative is something that, more likely than not, you will take on as a leader. It could impact your team, your department, or even the whole organization. You might have come across a statistic which claims that 70% of organizational change efforts fail. This might lead you to have second thoughts

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Change, Change Management, Leaders, Leadership, Organizational Growth, Plans, Resistance, Stakeholders

A Leader’s Survival Guide – Three Essential Resources

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You’ve just taken on a new leadership assignment. And it’s the most daunting one of your career. In fact, you’re not sure that you will be successful. This new role has you hovering on the very edge of your comfort zone… perhaps even tipping over the edge, staring into an abyss. Feeling nervous as you

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Adaptive Leadership, influencing others, Leaders, Leadership

Seasons of Growth – a gardener’s approach to nonprofit expansion

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What can we learn from gardeners about organizational change and leadership? Actually, quite a lot! Gardeners are stewards of the land. And good leaders recognize that they are stewards of their teams and organizations. (Even if they are founders, they will most likely pass it on to someone else at a future time.) Gardeners have

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Change, Change Management, Growth, Leaders, Organizational Growth

Choppy Waters Ahead!

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Being a leader means that you will always be facing uncertainty. There are so many variables that can impact on your organization and the work that you do that it is – frankly – impossible to anticipate and manage all of them. One thing is certain – there will be choppy waters ahead! This nautical

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Adaptive Leadership, Change Management, Growth, Impact, Leaders, Leadership, Organizational Growth, Sustaining Change

Use Team Charters to set a team up for success

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“A team is a small number of people with complementary skills who are committed to a common purpose, performance goals, and approach for which they hold themselves mutually accountable.” Katzenbach and Smith (2015) The Wisdom of Teams I find this such a helpful description of a team! It is simple, clear, and explicit about what distinguishes

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Effective Teams, Leaders, Leadership, Teams

Change Leaders – Are You Missing This Crucial Step? Unlocking the Power of Stakeholder Mapping

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Are you encountering unexpected pushback during your change initiative? You launched the change with great expectations and high hopes for success. You were responding to a shared pain with a promise to improve things. It felt like everyone with whom you spoke supported the need for change. So why this resistance? And why is some

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Change Management, Growth, Leaders, Stakeholders